JHLT: The Podcast Looks Back on the Best Studies of 2025
Happy new year from JHLT: The Podcast! The Digital Media Editors kick off the new season with a year-end recap, each sharing one of their favorite studies from The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation published in 2025. It's a quick look back at some excellent science in advanced heart and lung disease over the past year.
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Studies featured:
- Efficacy and safety of sotatercept across ranges of cardiac index in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: A pooled analysis of PULSAR and STELLAR
Gomberg-Maitland M, et al. JHLT Apr 2025 44(4):609 – 624. - A consensus-based framework for the psychosocial evaluation of pediatric candidates for cardiothoracic transplant and ventricular assist devices
Lefkowitz DS, et al. JHLT Apr 2025 44(4):487-502. - ABO-incompatible heart transplants in children aged 2-9 years: A new paradigm in transplant?
Hollis P, et al. JHLT Dec 2025 44(12):1910-1917. - Heart transplantation in Ukraine during wartime: A retrospective cohort study of standard vs marginal donor heart transplantation outcomes
Todurov B, et al. JHLT Nov 2025 44(11):1728-1734.
For the latest studies from JHLT, visit www.jhltonline.org/current, or, if you’re an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at www.ishlt.org/jhlt.
Don’t already get the Journal and want to read along? It's a great time to join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation for 2026 at www.ishlt.org. You'll get a free subscription of JHLT with your membership, among many other member benefits.
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